Mary from A Merry Life came to LA yesterday and I met my first blogger! We’ve had some interesting adventures, and thanks to Google Maps, have been able to find all of the places we’ve wanted to go to.
I took her to eat Korean Soon Tofu last night. It’s from a 24-hour restaurant called BCD Tofu House.
Other than the delicious tofu soup and the homemade kimchi, my favorite thing about the place is THE BUTTON.
In order to get service, you press a button which makes a doorbell sound. Your table number gets illuminated on a screen and only then does the waiter come to help you. It’s brilliant!
You crack an egg into the hot steaming tofu soup bowl and let the egg slowly cook. So delicious.
Today, we decided to tackle Venice Beach. Venice Beach is filled with street performers, lots of tattoo shops, too many medicinal marijuana doctors and smoke shops, and plenty of gorgeous beach scenery. There’s an outdoors gym, for big, bulky spandex-clad men to pump iron. There’s a few outdoors basketball courts, where they filmed American History X. There’s bums asking for money so they can go buy booze or weed (no joke). There’s a very particular atmosphere about Venice Beach. It’s just one of those places you have to see for yourself.
I’ve been to Venice Beach plenty of times but I’ve never had the opportunity to rent a bicycle and just ride along the pathway. I finally got to do that.
I’m glad I got to cross bicycling Venice Beach off my list of things to do. Because I went to UCLA, I always assumed that I’d get around to doing the things I wanted to do in LA, so I kept putting them off for later. Pretty soon, I had graduated and then decided to leave the country for a year. Now, in a month, I’ll be moving from California to Washington DC, where I’ll be for three years.
Opportunities to explore LA don’t happen often any more. I’m excited that I finally seized this one.
It’s funny how life works.
When you live somewhere, you take a lot of things for granted. When you move away, you realize that there’s a bunch of things you should have and could have done but never got around to.
What have you been wanting to do in your city? On your life list?
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Kimchi chige! Yum!!!! I’m quite jealous!
Ooh that looks delish! It’s so cool that you got to meet up with a blogger!
I am still working on my life list, but I’ll let you know!
very cool….both the fooood exploration and the Mary.
I love the mary.
I love how steamy the pictures are; it makes the food look more delicious!
I definitely don’t take advantage of all the cool things that happen in Toronto, so I know exactly what you mean.
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have you gone to the fashion district in downtown LA?? I live here in the Los Angeles area and just went for the first time … I had SO MUCH FUN!!!! if you want to meet up, give me a shout out!!
How great that you got to go biking on Venice Beach! Dinner looks great – I love the action shot with the egg! Have fun in DC. It’s a fantastic town.
Love the pictures, looks so yummy!
I enjoyed this post! I’m not sure about the soup, but I’m usually up to trying anything. Why no pics of you and your first blogger meet up?
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Ooh, I like trying new food.
I tried Pho a few years back in Houston, and I’ve been wanting to eat it again, but there just aren’t any authentic vietnamese restaurants in Bowling Green. 
So you’ll be in DC for a few years? I want to come visit!
I’m jealous of the following awesome things:
1. You got to meet the lovely Mary!
2. New adventures in food.
3. Crossing something new off your list – Venice Beach – yeah!
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Sounds like fun times. Your first pic backs me up on it. Enjoy you last few months in LA!
i saw your dinner on mary’s blog. looks good! i think that it’s common in most cities for a lot of homeless people to ask for $ for alcohol or drugs, as well as food. helps dull things.. ive heard of venice beach maybe ill go there some day.
hmm. there are some museums i havent hit in sf yet that i want to see. but basically i think ive been to all the areas i wanted to go to, after the 4 yrs ive been here.
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